9/27/2018

反對別人說的話沒什麼太大的困難 – 不,這是非常容易的事 – 但找出更好的替代方案卻是一件極為麻煩的事。It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man’s oration — nay, it is a very easy matter — but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man’s oration — nay, it is a very easy matter — but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.
– Plutarch, Greek Historian
反對別人說的話沒什麼太大的困難 – 不,這是非常容易的事 – 但找出更好的替代方案卻是一件極為麻煩的事。
– 普魯塔克 (46 BC – 120 BC) 羅馬時期的希臘作家,以《希臘羅馬名人傳》一書留名後世。作品在文藝復興時期,莎士比亞有不少劇作都取材自他的記載。

沒有留言:

張貼留言